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Episode Guide

154 episodes · 33 transcripts · 33 summaries

Season 712 episodes

E01

Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Aug 20191 site

Josh Gates travels to the Holy Land to unearth the mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls with an archaeologist who has discovered new ones; Josh sees cutting-edge technology restore scroll fragments in a way that could change how people read the Bible.

E02

Treasure of the Copper Scroll

Aug 20191 site

Josh Gates investigates a unique Dead Sea Scroll etched with riddles that could lead to an ancient treasure. Following new leads, Josh treks into the punishing Jordanian desert in search of the potential fortune.

E03

Chasing the Fortune of Sir Francis Drake

Aug 20191 site

Josh Gates searches land and sea for the lost fortune of legendary pirate Sir Francis Drake. Joining treasure hunters and maritime archaeologists, Josh hunts for a lost cache of Spanish gold and the remains of Drake himself.

E04

Mystery of Dead Mountain

Aug 20191 site

Braving the sub-zero conditions of Siberia, Josh Gates investigates one of the strangest and most brutal cold cases: the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Nine Soviet hikers died suspiciously. Sixty years later, no one knows how or why.

E05

Siberia's Coldest Case

Sep 20191 site

Josh Gates concludes his in-depth investigation of the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Taking on Dead Mountain's brutal conditions, Josh and two investigators re-trace the last steps of the hikers. A big discovery could finally solve the mystery.

E06

The Search for Florida's Lost Pirate

Sep 20198 sites✓ transcript

Josh Gates ventures into the jungles of Belize to investigate the life and controversial legacy of Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges, a early 20th-century British explorer who claimed to have discovered a lost Maya city and the infamous Crystal Skull of Doom in 1924. Gates retraces Mitchell-Hedges' expedition along the Rio Grande river, navigating the same treacherous waterways the explorer used to reach remote archaeological sites deep in what was then called British Honduras. The central mystery: determining whether Mitchell-Hedges was a legitimate archaeological pioneer who inspired the Indiana Jones character, or a self-promoting fabricator whose tales of battling sea monsters and evading cannibals overshadowed any real discoveries. Gates seeks to convince Bill Homann, the current steward of the crystal skull, to submit the artifact to definitive scientific testing that could finally settle decades of debate.

E07

Hunt for the Chupacabra

Sep 20191 site

In the dark caves and thick jungles of Puerto Rico, Josh Gates tracks a modern-day mystery - the Chupacabra. Working with a wildlife biologist, a veterinarian and an investigator, Josh explores a recent wave of attacks to separate fact from fiction.

E08

Chasing the Snake Kings

Sep 20191 site

Josh Gates returns to Guatemala with a potential breakthrough in the search for a Snake King tomb.

E09

Cracking the Secret

Oct 20191 site

Josh Gates is on a nation-wide treasure hunt to solve a mystery no one has cracked for 40 years: The Secret. Josh travels coast-to-coast and back in time using cutting edge augmented reality and tapping into a network of obsessed Secret detectives.

E10

Gold Rush of the Atlantic

Oct 20191 site

Josh Gates has a fresh lead on the massive lost treasure of the shipwrecked 1715 Spanish fleet. Josh returns to the waters of Florida's Atlantic coast and dives in with a new expedition that uses the latest high tech to locate the fleet's flagship.

E11

Search for the Sultan's Heart

Oct 20191 site

Four years after Josh Gates went on a journey to find the lost heart of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, he travels to the newly rediscovered town of Turbek for some shocking new revelations about the case.

E12

The Secret Solved

Oct 20191 site

Breaking news sends Josh Gates racing across the globe. One of the wickedly hard puzzles of The Secret, which Josh has been chasing for years, might have been solved. He's been crisscrossing the US, but this solution is in Josh's hometown.